ESL Conversation Questions - Getting to Know Each Other (I-TESL-J) (2024)

A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
  • Do you have any pets?
  • What was the last book you read?
  • Do you like to cook?
  • What's your favorite food?
  • Are you good at cooking/swimming/etc?
  • Are you married or single?
  • Do you have brothers and sisters?
    • Are they older or younger than you?
  • Do you like baseball?
  • Do you live alone?
  • Do you live in a house or an apartment?
  • Have you ever lived in another country?
  • Have you ever met a famous person?
  • How do you spend your free time?
  • How long have you been studying English?
  • How old are you?
  • How tall are you?
  • Tell me about a favorite event of your adulthood.
  • Tell me about a favorite event of your childhood.
  • What are your hobbies?
  • What two things could you not do when you were...?
  • What countries have you visited?
  • What country are you from?
  • What do you do on Sundays?
  • What do you do? What's your job?
  • What do you like to do in your free time?
  • What hobbies do you have?
  • What is the nearest bus stop or train station to your house?
  • What is your motto?
  • What is your religion? (Perhaps not a good question in some situations.)
  • What kind of food do you like?
  • What kind of people do you like?
  • What kind of people do you not like?
  • What languages do you speak?
  • What two things could you not do when you were a child, but you can do now?
  • What's something you do well?
  • What's your address?
  • What's your father like?
  • What's your mother like?
  • What's your name?
  • What's your phone number?
  • What's your telephone number?
  • When did you start to study English?
  • Where are you from?
  • Where do you live?
  • Where do you live? How long have you lived there?
  • Where were you born?
  • Which sports do you like?
  • Who do you live with?
  • Who do you respect the most?
  • Who has had the most influence in your life?
  • Why did you decide to take this course?
  • Why do you want to learn English?
  • Would you like to be famous?
  • What do you think you will be doing five years from now?
    • Where do you think you'll be living five years from now?
  • What is your goal in life?
  • Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
  • When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
  • How many cities have you lived in?
  • What jobs have you done?
  • Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
  • What could you do as a child that you can't do now?
  • Who is your next door neighbor in your home country?
    • What is he or she like?
    • Did you get along with each other?
  • What is the best memory of our country that you will take back home with you?
  • What is the worst memory of our country?
  • How many times did you move as a child?
  • Are you a task oriented person or a people oriented person?
  • What is the profile of the wife/husband you would meet?
    • What kind of woman/man would you like to marry?
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